After installing x.1 on my wallstreet (300mhz 8/192) the installer 
restarted my computer after counting down 30 seconds, it booted up into my 
other OS (9.1) on another partition and I went to the startup disk control 
panel and selected my partition w/ X to boot on.  The booting of X failed 
and I got this screen in small black text on a white background:

DEFAULT CATCH!  code=FFF00700 at % SRRO: 01C00510   % SRR!: 00083070

Open Firmware, 2.0.1
To continue booting MacOS type:
BYE <return>
To continue booting from the default boot device type:
BOOT <return>
For Open Firmware serial I/O type:
TTYA IO <return>
   ok

I chose BOOT the second option, it immediately responded with:
   BOOT CLAIM failed
I then chose BYE which sent into booting OS 9.1

After (without switching anything startup disk was still one with X.1 
installed) rebooting again, I got the same message this time choose the 
third one, For open firmware... and this gave me a black screen and a still 
spinning hard drive, so after ten minutes and trying to restart the machine 
manually with various key combinations, I pulled the power plug and battery 
shutting the machine down.  After rebooting I got the same screen, this 
time choosing BYE which caused it to search for an OS on the drive finally 
giving me a flashing ? mark, signaling no OS found.  I dug out a boot cd 
and booted the machine to OS 8.5.1 and neither partition on the hard drive 
was found after going through all the apple utilities and searching for any 
other volumes then my boot cd.  After shutting down, now I reboot and I 
back at that command prompt screen again.
What can I do?
Hopefully this won't involve wiping the hard drive...
All help is greatly appreciated!!!!
Thanks


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